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Demons and Tongues 



By MRS. ALMA WHITE 



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"Looking Back from Beulah" "The New Testament Church,' 

"Gems of Life," "Golden Sunbeams.'" Editor of "Pillar 

of Fire" and "Pillar of Fire Junior" 



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CONTENTS 

CHAPTER I. 

DEMON POSSESSION 

Greatest Calamity— Spiritual Bearings Lost — Satan's Might- 
iest Weapon — Latter Rain — Spurious Love — Miracles 
Claimed — Religious Demons — Pervert the Truth — A Cor- 
rupt Tree —Vigorous Warfare Necessary — The Lone 
Prophet. .. . . . . Page 5 

CHAPTER II 

SIGN-SEEKERS 

A Sign of the Last Days— Signs from Beneath — Tongueism is 
Spiritism — Mystery of Iniquity — Judged by its Fruit — 
Wandering Stars — The Love of Money — A Rich "Tongues" 
Editor 15 

CHAPTER III. 

HERESIES 

Denying Unity of Godhead— The Third Blessing — Strange 
Meetings — The Devil's Fire — Renouncef Former Teachings 
— Quotations — Seeking Tongues to Ease Conscience — 
God's Warnings — Evil Angels — Multitudes being De- 
ceived. ...... 23 

CHAPTER IV. 

PERILOUS TIMES 

Great Revival Predicted— Sins of the Flesh — Seducing Spirits 
— Its Rapid Growth — The Great Apostasy — Dissensions — 
Revival at Ephesus — Sceva's Seven Sons — The Clashing 
of Swords— Sufficient Warning. . 37 



CONTENTS 

CHAPTER V. 

ORIGIN OF THE "TONGUES" MOVEMENT 

Strange Appearance of a Leader — Pentecost Reported at 
Los Angeles — Gospel Meetings — People Warned — Deliv- 
ered Through Reading Pillar of Fire— In Germany — 
Repulsive Altar Scenes — A "Tongues" Meeting — Called 
Each Other Liars. .... Page 52 

CHAPTER VI. 

GIFTS of the spirit. 

Do all speak in Tongues — The Author's Conversion — Command 
of Language— The Jews After the Restoration — Miracles 
in Hearing— Moses' Rod— The "Gift" a Failure — Good 
Memories. . . .... 66 

CHAPTER VII. 

THE OLD RED DRAGON 

Satan's Ambition — Woman Clothed with the Sun— Works of 
the Flesh — "As it was in the Days of Noe" — Sodom — An 
Object Lesson — Lot's Plea— Cup of Iniquity Full — Fallen 
Angels— Satan's Efforts Foiled— Nature of Demons. 75 



DEMONS AND TONGUES 



CHAPTER I. 

DEMON POSSESSION — GREATEST CALAMITY — SPIRITUAL BEAR- 
INGS lost— satan's mightiest weapon — the latter rain 

SPURIOUS LOVE — MIRACLES CLAIMED — RELIGIOUS DEMONS 

— PERVERT THE TRUTH — A CORRUPT TREE — VIGOROUS 

WARFARE NECESSARY— THE LONE PROPHET 

"There is a way which seemeth right unto a 
man, but the end thereof are the ways of death" 
(Prov. 14:12). 

'TpHIS SCRIPTURE came to mind as we 
**■ thought of the condition of backsliders, and 
others, who have been caught in the Satanic 
"Tongues" delusion, which, during the past few 
years, has swept like a pestilence over the globe. 
A person who has fallen from grace is in a deplor- 
able state and is to be pitied, even when he 
realizes his condition, but how much more dread- 
ful it is to be possessed with demons and not know 
it. Of all calamities that could possibly befall 
a person this side of eternity, this appeals to us as 
being the worst. When the Holy Spirit is grieved 
away, the door is open and demons enter as angels of 
light and take possession of the heart. They do not 
say, "We are demons and have come to sink your 
soul into perdition," but they talk like angels. In 



6 Demons and Tongues 

other words, they claim to be the Holy Ghost, and 
thus deceive and destroy the soul. 

From a personal knowledge of and actual ac- 
quaintance with many who have been swept away 
by the ' 'Tongues" delusion, we know, that through 
disobedience or refusal to consecrate themselves to 
God, they lost their spiritual bearings and have 
been backslidden, some of them, for years. Of 
course it was Satan's opportunity to pick them up 
and make them dupes of his religion. When the 
truth is fully known it will be found that the 
' 'Tongues" adherents, with few exceptions, are per- 
sons of this character. When people refuse to take 
the rugged way of the Cross, they are continually 
looking for something to ease their consciences; 
Satan sees that they find it. He stands at their right 
hand and says, "This is the way, walk ye in it," and 
without controversy they obey. When they re- 
peatedly go against light, and refuse God's counsel 
and reproof, He turns away and leaves them to 
their fate. God helps those who do His will. "Not 
every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter 
into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the 
will of my Father which is in heaven" (Matt. 7 : 21). 

Apostate Gentiles have turned their ears unto 
fables, ignoring the word of God and walking after 
the traditions of men, hence the soil of their hearts 
is ready for the devil's own planting. The good 
seed finds no lodging-place. But God is merciful 
enough not to leave them without warning. He has 



Satan's Mightiest Weapon 7 

a few people in these days of awful peril who are 
exposing the works of the devil, and faithfully 
proclaiming His word and truth. 

The so-called Apostolic movement, known as 
the ' 'Tongues," is an invention of Satan to shut peo- 
ple's eyes to the apostate condition of Christendom. 
Its purpose is to make a great religious display 
and lull the multitudes to sleep in their cradles of 
carnal security, just at the close of the Gentile age. 
Satan knows that his days are few and he must 
lose no time ; that the day is not far distant when 
the angel will descend from heaven with a chain to 
bind him and cast him into the bottomless pit, 
where the key will be turned on him for a thousand 
years. His mightiest weapon of warfare is a 
counterfeit religion. He must make people be- 
lieve that the world is growing better, and he 
disguises himself and comes as an angel of 
light, bringing with him this so-called Pente- 
costal baptism with the sign of tongues. To his 
satisfaction the great multitudes of professors have 
cooled off and many are ready for just such a coun- 
terfeit or to accept anything under the name of 
Pentecost he may hand out to them. He tells them 
that Zechariah's prophecy (Zech. 14: 7), which says, 
"At evening time it shall be light," is being fulfilled 
in the spread of the "Tongues" movement over the 
globe, that "THE LATTER RAIN" is falling upon 
the Gentiles and there is now a world-wide revival 
and that hundreds and thousands are receiving their 



8 Demons and Tongues 

Pentecost. The prophecy which says, "At evening 
time it shall be light," and those concerning * 'the lat- 
ter rain," have reference to the Jews, and will be ful- 
filled after they are gathered back to Palestine. All 
this talk about the latter rain is a misappropriation of 
Scripture that belongs to the Jews, as is plain to be 
seen: "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and re- 
joice in the Lord your God : for he hath given you 
the former rain moderately, and he will cause to 
come down for you the rain, the former rain, and 
the latter rain in the first month. And the floors 
shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow 
with wine and oil. And I will restore to you the 
years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, 
and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great 
army which I sent among you" (Joel 2 : 23-25). 
Gentiles have no claim whatever to the litaral fulfil- 
ment of the phrophecies concerning the latter rain. 
Instead of light coming to them they are being en- 
shrouded in the greatest spiritual darkness that has 
ever been known in the history of the Gospel age. 
Many persons have signed pledges and quit 
the drink and other habits without ever hav- 
ing been converted, and there may be in the 
"Tongues" movement those who have reformed, 
but this they could do and not have a particle 
of spiritual light. Salvation begins in the heart 
and works outward. Those who have once 
had the Spirit of God are not so likely to 
fall back into the old paths of outward sin ; they 



Spurious Love 9 

are more likely to be brought under the power 
of some delusion, never getting their eyes open 
until they wake up in perdition. Satan does not 
care how high a person's outward standard of 
morals may be just so his imps can have a lodging 
place in his heart. He can better accomplish his 
purpose when one is not outwardly wicked. 

There is a spurious love existing among the 
"Tongues" folk which is extremely revolting. 
When Satan is trying to deceive a person with 
false religion he is too shrewd to come as a roaring 
lion, but brings his counterfeit of Divine love which 
always appeals to the carnal mind and is readily 
accepted by those who are caught by his heresies. 

The "Tongues" people claim miracle-work- 
ing power in the healing of diseases just as the 
Christian Scientists have claimed it for years. At 
the beginning of each new era in the history of both 
Jews and Gentiles, there have been great demon- 
strations of power. The true Church will never lose 
the gifts of the Spirit nor the power of working 
miracles. It is not necessary, however, at the close 
of the Gentile dispensation for miracles to be 
worked to prove the divinity of Christ. His 
divinity has already been established. 

In fulfilment of prophecy, men have hardened 
their hearts; the Holy Spirit has been rejected and 
demons are strongly intrenched in human habita- 
tions, and, like a criminal, apostate Christendom is 
under the Divine sentence and must pay the pen- 



10 Demons and Tongues 

alty. God owes no favors to those who have re- 
fused His counsel and insulted His Spirit. The 
gallows for their execution, figuratively speaking, is 
already prepared. There are a few people, however, 
who have kept their garments unspotted from the 
world and are robed and ready to meet their coming 
Lord when He appears in the clouds of His glory. 

When a religious demon enters the heart, he 
will sing, preach and pray through his victim, and 
in fact do almost anything that one does who has 
real salvation. He is usually equipped with plenty 
of religious paraphernalia. He has a lingo that 
sounds like the language of Canaan, and the un- 
wary pilgrim will be taken in his net. He even 
talks about the blood of the atonement and the 
coming of Christ. If He did not there would be 
no danger of his deceiving the very elect. He 
comes with an open Bible and claims that his 
arguments are based upon the word of God; he 
can quote scripture and pervert it to perfection. A 
smooth-tongued hypocrite thus demonized can do 
more real damage than a host of sinners who make 
no profession. The fountain of iniquity from within 
sends forth an unclean stream ; the tongue speaks 
perverse things. 

It is a critical time when those who pro- 
fess to be righteous, neither call for justice 
nor plead for the truth, and we personally 
know that many among the "Tongues" people 
who claim "the baptism" with the sign of 



Pervert the Truth 11 

tongues, are ever ready to pervert the truth. 
They will take up and spread an evil report and 
they always find a hearing among those of their 
own kind. The love of the truth is not in them. 
Isaiah says of such, "They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and 
weave the spider's web : he that eateth of their eggs 
dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into 
a viper." No stronger statements than these could 
be made. There is nothing more deadly than the 
sting of a viper, and those who listen to falsehoods 
and repeat them hatch cockatrice' eggs, and a nest of 
vipers are turned loose to bite and destroy. When 
one listens to and accepts a lie he is becoming inocu- 
lated with the poison of a viper. Those who have 
the spirit of Jesus will not do such things ; they 
will not subsist on falsehoods and take up an 
evil report and carry it to others. The spider 
weaves a web and captures his prey in its meshes, 
and so does a tale-bearer weave his stories so as to 
catch the innocent and unwary. A tale-bearer is an 
encumberer of the ground and should be looked 
upon as such by all who love the truth. "Their webs 
shall not become garments, neither shall they cover 
themselves with their works : their works are works 
of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their 
hands" (Isa. 59 : 6). Truth is fallen to the ground and 
a false standard is lifted up. God will arise, and 
according to the deeds of the wicked He will repay 
"fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies." 
When John the Baptist told his hearers of 



12 Demons and Tongues 

Jesus who would baptize them with the Holy Ghost 
and fire, he said, ''And now also the axe is laid unto 
the root of the trees: every tree therefore which 
bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and 
cast into the fire" (Luke 3 : 9). The ' 'Tongues" 
tree is not only corrupt (doctrinely wrong), but it 
is lodging all kinds of unclean birds in its branches. 
The Gospel axe must hew it down, and there are 
not many who are able to wield the axe. This tree 
sprang up in a day and bears unmistakably the 
fruit of corruption. Any person, however profligate 
he may be, can get the tongues. All he needs to do 
is to associate with the "Tongues" folk and seek 
according to their directions. If he has any diffi- 
culty they will assist him by their magic devices, 
even taking hold and working his jaws until 
satisfactory results are obtained. 

A legion of devils were cast out of the Gada- 
rene and seven were cast out of Mary Magdalene. If 
we could only know how many are hiding under- 
neath a cloak of profession among the "Tongues" 
people it would be a great revelation to some who 
are deceived. Many an old spiritualist has attended 
their meetings and felt himself perfectly at home. 
He recognizes the same spirits operating in a 
"Tongues" meeting that he does in the seance. 
Devil worshipers in India have had the gift of 
tongues, and Mormon polygamists in our own land 
claim to speak with the "tongues of angels." There 
never was a better time for witchcraft to become 



The Lone Prophet 13 

rooted in fruitful soil. The leaders of the apostate 
holiness movements are full of pride and unholy am- 
bition, living to gratify their fleshly appetites. The 
rugged way of the Cross is shunned and something 
that appeals to the senses is sought after by leaders 
and people. 

In old times, those who were possessed with 
strange spirits were taken out and stoned to death 
that the land might -be rid of witches, and it is 
necessary to wage as vigorous warfare against this 
evil to-day as it was in olden times. We fully 
realize our great responsibility, and see more and 
more the fight we will have to make in the midst of 
this wicked and perverse generation, where multi- 
tudes of professed Christians are so utterly ignorant 
of the power of the Holy Spirit to save, sanctify 
and keep free from sin. 

Elisha was the only prophet and evangelist in 
Israel that could bid Naaman's leprosy depart. 
1 'And many lepers were in Israel in the time of 
Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was 
cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian"(Luke 4 : 27). 
For one to be healed of leprosy was an unheard of 
thing, but there was one man at least whom God 
honored, who had found such favor with Him that 
He could use him in the healing of a leper. 

God has raised up the Pillar of Fire and placed it 
in the breach to enlighten the people and to bring 
them to the knowledge of the truth. It is no small 
work to expose the devil as he appears in the dis- 



14 Demons and Tongues 

guise of the Holy Ghost in this "Tongues" move- 
ment. But we are going to make the effort and 
leave the consequences with God. 

The principalities and powers of darkness 
cannot stand before a prevailing Church ; not 
because its members have any strength or might 
of their own, but from the fact that the God of 
the universe hears their cries and co-operates with 
them. He has all power in heaven and in earth 
and besides Him there is no God. When man 
reaches the limit of his strength, he may expect 
something marvelous to take place, especially when 
the enemies of righteousness have set themselves to 
destroy the work that God has called him to do. 

The "Tongues" adherents, whether they are 
aware of it or not, are being used of the devil to 
destroy, if possible, the last ray of spiritual light 
in the old holiness movement, but God is raising 
up a standard against them. The Church moves 
heaven and heaven moves earth and hell. The 
Lord delights to honor those who honor Him and 
tells them to remember that their weapons of war- 
fare are not carnal. "Vengeance is mine; I will 
repay, saith the Lord." Soon the long night of sin 
will be brought to a close and the day will break for 
those who have been faithful. The eye of faith 
even now beholds the rosy- tinted morning that will 
herald the coming of our Lord and King to reign 
in glory upon the earth. 



CHAHTER II. 

SIGN- SEEKERS— A SIGN OF THE LAST DAYS— SIGNS FROM BE- 
NEATH — TONGUEISM IS SPIRITISM — MYSTERY OF INIQUITY — 
JUDGED BY ITS FRUIT — WANDERING STARS — THE 
.LOVE OF MONEY — A RICH "TONGUES" EDITOR 

TN THE 12th chapter of Matthew we find that 
A Jesus rebuked the Pharisees who were seeking 
after a sign. These Pharisees were so dead spirit- 
ually that they did not know their Messiah when He 
came. They claimed that He was an impostor, and 
utterly rejected Him. They said He cast out devils 
by Beelzebub the prince of devils. When they de- 
sired a sign of Him, He replied, "An evil and 
adulterous generation seeketh after a SIGN ; and 
there shall no SIGN be given unto it, but the 
SIGN of the prophet Jonas" (Matt. 12 : 39). Christ 
himself is this SIGN, His death and burial being 
prefigured by the three days and nights that Jonah 
was in the whale, and His resurrection by the 
ejection of the prophet onto the dry land. He further 
said, "The men of Nineveh shall rise up in judg- 
ment with this generation, and shall condemn it." 
That is, the generation that sought after a SIGN. 

When people turn aside from the truth and go 
to seeking signs, they open their hearts to be de- 
ceived by men and demons. These Pharisees had 
no conviction and no desire to repent of their sins. 



16 Demons and Tongues 

They were already condemned. Heathen Nineveh 
received Jonah's message and repented in sackcloth 
and ashes, and mercy was extended unto them ; but 
the hypocritical Pharisees who were seeking after 
signs refused to repent, and in their rags of self- 
righteousness were turned over to become the habi- 
tations of demons. 

"When the unclean spirit is gone out of a 
man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, 
and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into 
my house from whence I came out ; and when he is 
come, he findeth it empty, swept and garnished. 
Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other 
spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in 
and dwell there : and the last state of that man is 
worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto 
this wicked generation" (Matt. 12 : 43-45). 

There is no better illustration of this evil gen- 
eration to which Jesus referred than the present 
"Tongues" movement, composed, as it is, of hypo- 
critical sign-seekers. They have signs among them, 
but they are from beneath and not from above. It 
is the same old spirit of necromancy and witchcraft 
that has been manifested in all ages. Witchcraft 
belongs to the works of the flesh; wherever 
people are given to the over-indulgence of their 
fleshly appetites, it is an easy matter to become 
the victims of witchcraft. 

Josiah, king of Israel, had the land cleansed of 
the workers with familiar spirits. 2 Kings 23 : 24-25 



Tongueism is Spiritism 17 

says, "Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, 
and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, 
and all the abominations that were spied in the 
land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put 
away, that he might perform the words of the law 
which were written in the book that Hilkiah the 
priest found in the house of the Lord. And like 
unto him was there no king before him, that turned 
to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his 
soul, and with all his might, according to all the 
law of Moses ; neither after him arose there any 
like him." 

We must wage warfare against this demon- 
working power if we expect to please God and have 
our prayers answered. The country is full of 
witches and wizards presenting themselves as the 
teachers of righteousness. ' 'Tongueism" is spiritism, 
and so subtle is the enemy that it is deceiving 
the people in all lands. Multitudes are being 
brought under the influence and charm of those 
who claim to have obtained the Holy Ghost bap- 
tism with the sign of tongues. Ignorant of the true 
principles of salvation they are unable to understand 
the strange spirits that operate in a "Tongues" 
meeting and are caught by the devil's baits. It is 
for this class of people more especially that we 
write, hoping that by some means they may be 
recovered from the snare of the wicked one and 
their eyes opened to their peril before they are hope- 
lessly engulfed in the slimepits of "Tongueis!^" 
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18 Demons and Tongues 

where all kinds of heresies are bred and fostered. 

"For the mystery of iniquity doth already 
work: only he who now letteth will let, until he 
be taken out of the way. * * Even him, whose 
coming is after the working of Satan with all 
power and signs and lying wonders, And with 
all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that 
perish ; because they received not the love of the 
truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause 
God shall send them strong delusion, that they 
should believe a lie: That they all might be 
damned who believed not the truth, but had 
pleasure in unrighteousness" ( 2 Thess. 2 : 7-12 ). 
When people refuse to be reined up and go 
through the spiritual discipline that God seeks to 
give them, He sends them strong delusions which 
they are unable to get rid of. No amount of argu- 
ing or reasoning will cause them to see their lost 
condition, and they go on deceiving and being de- 
ceived. They have forsaken sound doctrines and be- 
come the advocates of heresy. Paul, in his second 
epistle to Timothy (4: 3-4) says, "For the time 
will come when they will not endure sound doc- 
trine ; but after their own lusts shall they heap to 
themselves teachers, having itching ears ; And they 
shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall 
be turned unto fables." 

We never saw so many with itching ears as are 
found in the " Tongues " movement. They are 
listening to hear of signs and wonders and they sit 



Judged by Its Fruit 19 

fascinated while remarkable stories are being told 
of how people who, it has been claimed, have been 
healed of their bodily diseases, etc. A short time 
ago in London, we heard of a person whom the 
1 'Tongues" people claimed was healed on receiv- 
ing a handkerchief that one of their leaders in 
Los Angeles, California, had blest and sent to her. 
We have known this man for years. When we first 
met him he was a practicing physician and had 
salvation, but we have every evidence that he has 
been a backslider for years. We are to judge a tree 
by its fruit and we know that his ministry is not 
bringing forth the fruit of righteousness. Like 
others he is looking for signs and wonders, while 
those under his ministry are perishing for the 
bread of life. There is no evidence given 
among his followers that they have been truly 
converted. To show the character of the work this 
man is doing, he told us on one occasion that after 
a few minutes' talk in one of his meetings, the 
power fell and about one hundred persons were con- 
verted in their seats. 

There was no repentance, no restitution, no 
crying, "God be merciful to me a sinner," no con- 
fession of sin, no godly sorrow, yet he claimed they 
were converted. Who ever heard of a Holy Ghost 
revival under such conditions. This is worse than 
a card- signing affair. After the three years' minis- 
try of our Lord on earth there were only 120 per- 
sons who waited for the descent of the Holy Ghost 



20 Demons and Tongues 

in the upper room. In these last days of awful peril 
and old church apostasy we find a person who is 
presumptuous enough to claim that one hundred per- 
sons were converted under the above conditions in a 
single meeting. Jude says of such preachers, ' 'These 
are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast 
with you, feeding themselves without fear : clouds 
they are without water, carried about of winds; 
trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice 
dead, plucked up by the roots: Raging waves of 
the sea, foaming out their own shame ; wandering 
stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness 
for ever." 

This man, we positively know, has helped to 
prepare the soil in Los Angeles for the ' 'Tongues" 
heresy. The Scripture says, "For by thy words 
thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt 
be condemned." He told us about some gold mines 
in which he was interested, and frankly stated that 
some day he expected to be a very rich man. His 
own words were sufficient proof that he had fallen 
from grace. Matthew 19:24 says, "It is easier 
for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, 
than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom 
of God." He evidently was not expecting to take 
the track that Jesus took, who said, "The foxes 
have holes, and the birds of the air have nests ; but 
the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." 
James says, "Your gold and silver is cankered; 
and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, 



A Rich "Tongues" Editor 21 

and shall eat your flesh as it were fire." It was 
clearly manifested that he had an exalted opinion 
of himself and had the love of money in his heart. 
The Scripture says, "For the love of money 
is the root of all evil: which while some cov- 
eted after, they have erred from the faith, and 
pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 
But thou, O man of God, flee these things ; and 
follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, 
patience, meekness. Fight the good fight of faith, 
lay hold on eternal life" (1 Tim. 6 : 10-12). 

There is an editor of a "Tongues" publication 
in California who, we are told (by the "Tongues" 
people), is very rich, but she is looked upon by them 
as being a saint. James says to the rich men, "Go 
* * weep and howl for your miseries that shall come 
upon you." The people of this so-called Apostolic 
movement are not telling the rich among them to 
weep and howl, THEY TELL THEM TO SEEK 
THE TONGUES. Jesus said, "Lay not up for 
yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and 
rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through 
and steal : * * For where your treasure is, there will 
your heart be also." Men's hearts are always with 
their treasures. It cannot be otherwise. The only 
way to get the affections on things above is to be- 
come poor in this world's goods. "Poor, yet making 
many rich ; as having nothing, and yet possessing 
all things." It is God's plan to keep His children 
dependent upon Him for their temporal supplies, 



22 Demons and Tongues 

and only in this way can they live the life of faith. 
"Without faith it is impossible to please him." 

Rich men who make a profession of religion, 
openly defy God's word and trample His laws 
under their feet; they have persecuted His 
prophets and martyred His saints in all ages. Jesus 
called them a generation of vipers and said, "How 
can ye escape the damnation of hell?" There are 
not two roads to heaven ; there is only one way — 
the way of faith — "The just shall live by faith." 



CHAPTER III. 

HERESIES— DENYING UNITY OF GODHEAD— THE THIRD BLESS- 
ING — STRANGE MEETINGS— THE DEVIL'S EIRE — RENOUNCE 
FORMER TEACHINGS — QUOTATIONS — SEEKING TONGUES 
TO EASE CONSCIENCE — GOD'S WARNINGS — EVIL 
ANGELS — MULTITUDES BEING DECEIVED 

TX7E NOTICE in looking over the "Tongues" 
" * publications that their pages are all stamped 
with heresy. They teach that the baptism with the 
Holy Ghost and tongues is a distinct work from sanc- 
tification. They call sanctification the "baptism with 
blood," and claim that the Holy Spirit has nothing 
to do with this baptism, that the Holy Spirit did 
not die for humanity. What could be more abom- 
inable in the sight of God than this? While like 
the third blessing heresy so popular among many 
backsliders a few years ago, this doctrine is much 
worse. Ephesians 4 : 5 says clearly there is but 
"One Lord, one faith, one baptism." When car- 
nality is destroyed by the sanctifying power of the 
Holy Spirit people become one in Christ, having 
been baptized by one Spirit into one body. 

Advocates of the "Tongues" heresy do violence 
to the unity of the Godhead. They divide up the 
work of. salvation among the three persons and 
run into tri-theism, when they deny that the Holy 
Spirit is our sanctifier. The Word declares that 
there are not three Gods, but one God in three 



24 Demons and Tongues 

persons. The Holy Spirit is the third person, the 
executive of the Godhead. He convicts the sinner, 
regenerates the penitent and sanctifies the Christian. 
The Word teaches that we are sanctified by the 
Holy Spirit, that is, the Holy Spirit applies the 
blood, cleansing the heart from all spiritual defile- 
ment, taking possession of the temple and occupy- 
ing the throne of the heart. 

The disciples, the ''Tongues" folk say, were 
sanctified before Pentecost. It seems strange that 
any one who has had spiritual light could be swept 
away by such doctrines. We have every evidence 
that the disciples had the carnal mind until Pente- 
cost, when the Holy Ghost fell upon them and 
utterly expurgated the last remains of it. The 
baptism of the Holy Ghost and sanctification is 
one and the same work, and any one who teaches 
differently has either never known Christ or is a 
backslider under the control of demons. Why 
should we go back on this standard teaching which 
God has blest in all past ages? The great work of 
Pentecost was the destruction of the carnal nature, 
or the execution of the old man of sin. The plan 
of salvation has never been changed ; it has been 
the same in all ages. Two works of grace are set 
forth — regeneration and sanctification. Regener- 
ation is the imparting of life by the Holy Spirit to 
the dead soul. Sanctification is the removal of the 
carnal nature, or the body of sin that, like a dead 
corpse, clings to the soul after it has been regener- 



The Third Blessing 25 

ated. In the seventh of Romans (verse 24) we read, 
"0 wretched man that I am ! who shall deliver me 
from the body of this death?" The next verse 
gives hope ; through Jesus Christ there is deliver- 
ance. The Holy Spirit utterly destroys this body 
of sin and fits the temple for His own indwelling, 
and takes possession. 

A few years ago an advocate of the third bless- 
ing heresy told us that the fact that the disciples 
were all of one accord in one place when the Holy 
Spirit descended proves that they were sanctified 
before Pentecost. He had been in Canada and 
different parts of the United States gathering a few 
people together and erroneously teaching them that 
it is impossible for regenerated people to be of one 
accord, and used this as his strong argument that 
the sanctification of the disciples took place before 
Pentecost. He almost succeeded in making some 
of our own converts believe he was right and 
tried to convince us that we had been teaching 
them wrong. While he stood with his Bible in hand 
delivering his message to us in our own home we 
opened a revised version and showed him that the 
"one accord" was missing ; that the scripture simply 
reads, "When the day of Pentecost was now come, 
they were all together in one place"(Acts 2 :1, R. V.). 
When he saw the complete absence of "With one 
accord," on which he was basing his argument, 
he was utterly confused and began to whirl around 
in the floor and shout out, "Glory to God, glory to 



26 Demons and Tongues 

God, glory to God!" This ended his work in the 
West. A short time afterwards we learned that he 
had died. 

The "Tongues" people believe in laying aside 
doctrines like a person would lay off a garment, 
then they say, "Become passive — cease to strive — 
and tongues will come." This is hypnotism — the 
same spirits at work that are found in the spiritual- 
istic meetings. 

Paul repeatedly warns Timothy about the doc- 
trines. 1 Tim. 4: 16 says, "Take heed unto thy- 
self, and unto the doctrine ; continue in them : for in 
doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that 
hear thee." The 13th verse says, "Till I come, 
give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doc- 
trine." The fact is, we cannot get along without 
doctrine, but God forbid that we should endorse 
the doctrines of devils. 

There is no way for the devil to proceed with 
his work in a "Tongues" meeting until he has 
induced people to give up sound doctrines, then he 
can operate upon their mental and spiritual organ- 
isms, and after they have accepted the false he has 
them completely under the control of his imps, and 
most any kind of outburst of demon power is likely 
to follow. It may be speaking in tongues which no 
one can understand or even in language that some 
are familiar with. Seekers of the tongues often be- 
come unconscious and remain in that state for hours. 

In the "Tongues" meetings it is a fact that 



The Devil's Fire 27 

under strange spells people have been known to 
writhe like serpents, bark like dogs, mew like cats, 
and mimic perfectly other animals. Satan under- 
stands languages and in some instances may 
speak through those who yield themselves to be 
used as his instrumentalities. 

As the Gentile age draws to a close, there will 
be greater manifestations of demon power than have 
ever been known in the history of the world. One 
Bible commentator has said the devil's fire will fall 
and many will be deceived. "Man has fox fire, and 
the devil has hell-fire, and God has heavenly fire. 
The Holy Ghost is God. If you seek a baptism 
separate from sanctification you open the door 
for men and devils to deceive you with their 
strange fire, for which Nadab and Abihu fell dead 
when they offered it unto the Lord." 

It hardly seems possible that so many people 
could be deceived by the false doctrines current in 
the present "Tongues" movement. Those who have 
refused spiritual discipline are unable to tell the dif- 
ference between the Holy Spirit, and imps of perdi- 
tion when they come as angels of light. Professing to 
know God they failed to keep the rugged track and 
gave way to the works of the flesh in some form. 
The devil saw his opportunity to deceive them and 
took advantage of it. 

We find that many persons who have become 
the victims of the "Tongues" delusion have claimed 
the baptism of the Holy Ghost for years. Of course 



28 Demons and Tongues 

they were backslidden when they came in contact 
with this demon worship and they concluded that 
they had never had their Pentecost, and threw 
open the doors of their hearts and invited the 
"Tongues" demon to come in, which he did, only 
too glad to get the chance. If a legion of devils 
begged Jesus to let them go into the swine they 
would have no hesitation in entering the heart 
of a human being who persistently entreats them to 
come in. The fact is these demon seducers are tak- 
ing possession of those whose hearts were once 
the temple of the Holy Spirit without being re- 
sisted. In accepting the "Tongues" heresy people 
virtually say that all previous claims they have 
made to salvation are false, and that for the 
first time in their lives they are being enlightened. 
They make God out a liar. If they had any 
salvation they would hold fast the profession 
of their faith without wavering, but, according 
to instructions, they renounce their former teach- 
ings and spiritual light as not being of God. 
The testimonies of such people amount to this, 
"We have been hypocrites during all the years 
of our Christian profession, we have been deceived by 
the devil, and we are just now getting our eyes open 
to the truth." In order to worm their way out of their 
entanglements they go to tinkering with the doc- 
trines. First, the candidate must be immersed in 
water, then follow the various works which they 
divide up between the different persons of the 



Quotations 29 

Godhead, the ultimate end of which must be mut- 
tering or jabbering in tongues. 

We quote the following from a "Tongues" 
paper published in Chicago: "Let it be settled once 
and for all, that the Holy Spirit cannot save any one, 
and that it is no part of His work to do so." This 
is simply blasphemy. What could please the devil 
more than to have men blaspheme the Holy Ghost? 
"Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven 
unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith 
soever they shall blaspheme: But he that shall 
blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never for- 
giveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation" 
(Mark 3:28-29). There is no greater blasphemy 
against the Holy Ghost than is found in this 
"Tongues" movement ! It certainly climaxes the 
works of the devil in all ages. 

The following is also a quotation from this 
publication : 

"What a mistake it is to give the Holy Spirit 
credit for all the work the blessed Christ does for 
us, thus robbing Him of His glory." What 
else can this be but blasphemy? The Word 
says, "For there are three that bear record in 
heaven, the Father, the Word(Jesus), and the Holy 
Ghost: and these three are one" (1 John 5 : 7). 
When a person says that the Holy Spirit has not 
power of execution he virtually says that neither 
God nor His Son have this power, and if the truth 
were only known, these blasphemers are taking all 



30 Demons and Tongues 

the power from God and giving it to the devil, who, 
with his imps, is operating through them. It 
certainly is time for the lovers of truth and right- 
eousness to rise up in arms against this "Tongues" 
movement and contend for the faith that was 
once delivered to the saints. 

Again we quote, from the same paper: "Large 
numbers who know that it is Christ that is received 
in conversion, and who believe in sanctification as a 
subsequent work of grace, declare that while they 
did not receive the Spirit in conversion, they cer- 
tainly did in sanctification. Again we say, 'No,' 
Jesus Christ is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, 
sanctification, and redemption. Then if the Spirit 
reveals unto us after we are saved that the Christ 
we received as our Savior in conversion is also made 
unto us sanctification and faith appropriates it, it is 
not the Holy Spirit we receive, it is salification in 
Jesus Christ. Further, the Holy Spirit will wit- 
ness clearly to our sanctification and will bring 
great blessing and joy to the heart of the person 
who is separated unto God through the precious 
blood of Christ. But all this is not receiving the 
Holy Ghost." A few years ago, we met people 
who had gone into the third blessing heresy. They 
went from one extreme to another. After they 
had claimed to receive the Holy Ghost, as a 
third work, they sought a blessing of dynamite. 
After having received it, they sought the blessing 
of lyddite, which, they said, was even stronger 



Quotations 31 

than dynamite. At this juncture those who had 
at first advocated the third blessing made a 
protest declaring that they would not go any 
further. Then their meetings broke up in a row. 
This was God's way of answering our prayers in 
behalf of those who were being swept away by the 
false doctrines 

The persistency shown by some of the adher- 
ents of the present "Tongues" heresies in trying 
to get others under the same demon-working power 
is shocking, but thank God, there are a few persons 
yet who cannot be brought under the control of de- 
mons. There is a saying that we have often 
heard, "You can fool some of the people all of the 
time, and all of the people some of the time, but 
you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." 
We can say with St. Paul, "For I know whom I 
have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to 
keep that which I have committed unto him against 
that day" (2 Tim. 1 : 12). The next verse says, 
"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou 
hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in 
Christ Jesus." Paul had reference here to sound 
doctrine. He says also that all that were in Asia 
turned away from him and mentions Phygellus and 
Hermogenes. These persons who turned away may 
have kept up their profession, but they embraced 
false doctrines, or in other words, the doctrines of 
devils. 

He mentioned Onesiphorus who had often re- 



32 Demons and Tongues 

freshed Him and was not ashamed of his chain. By 
this we know that those who left him were ashamed 
of his chain. There was too much reproach in con- 
nection with it for them. They wanted a popular 
religion, and of course the devil had it for them. 
Paul declared that he was not ashamed of the 
Gospel, that it is the power of God unto salvation 
unto every one that believeth. The ' 'Tongues" 
people laid down the Cross before they embraced 
the doctrines of devils. There is no reproach of the 
Cross connected with getting the modern tongues, 
from the fact they originated in perdition. There 
are some persons among them who claim they are 
being persecuted. This may be true, but it is 
not for righteousness' sake. No doubt some of them 
in their deceived and deluded condition actually 
suffer. There are all kinds of divisions and dissen- 
sions among those who are given up to demon 
worship. There are carnal professors who have not 
yielded themselves to these spirits who will oppose 
those who have. It is the same old carnal warfare 
that has been manifested in churches and political 
parties all down the ages. All classes of people are 
found seeking the tongues without repenting of 
their sins or meeting the conditions of the Script- 
ures in any sense. Those who have been rebelling 
against God for years will go to a ' 'Tongues" meet- 
ing and seek tongues to ease their consciences. 
Isaiah describes their spiritual condition: "The 
whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 



God's Warnings 33 

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there 
is no soundness in it ; but wounds, and bruises, and 
putrifying sores : they have not been closed, neither 
bound up, neither mollified with ointment." Such 
persons ought to read the tenth and eleventh verses 
(chapter 1), and profit by them : "Hear the word of 
the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom ; give ear unto the 
law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. To what 
purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto 
me?" The " Tongues" movement is of the flesh 
and of the devil, and as truly can God call the 
leaders, "Rulers of Sodom," as He did backslidden 
Israel in the days of old. He will unsheath His 
sword and uncover this mess of carnality. The day 
is not far distant when all those who have been 
found taking part in their meetings would gladly 
go into the holes and caves of the earth if they 
could hide from the presence of the Lord. The 
ghastly works of the devil in "Tongueism" must 
and will be exposed. 

For years God has been warning people that 
His judgments were about to fall upon the earth, 
and those who have had spiritual understanding 
of the Word have stood in the pulpit and drawn 
vivid pictures of the power of demons that will be 
manifest in the latter days. Many books have 
been written against spiritualism and witchcraft, 
but alas for preachers, writers and others, demon 
power is manifesting itself in a different way from 
what they expected. While they have been at ease 

3 



34 Demons and Tongues 

in Zion, Satan has marshalled his hosts and dressed 
up his imps like angels from heaven and sent them 
out to make one grand onslaught with his decep- 
tive arts. His chief end is to blaspheme the Holy 
Ghost and sweep true religion off the face of the 
earth. Stories that are being circulated in regard 
to the healing of diseases, are his strongest bait. 
Many go to the ' 'Tongues" meetings and seek to 
be healed of their diseases, and have no thought 
of restraining their appetites or otherwise disciplin- 
ing their bodies, or of glorifying God in their lives 
as cross bearers. They want to see signs and 
wonders, but God will have nothing to do with them, 
and of course it is the devil's opportunity to build 
up his own kingdom by promising them health. 

When Israel murmured and gave way to their 
fleshly lusts the Psalmist says that God "cast upon 
them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indigna- 
tion, and trouble, by sending EVIL ANGELS 
among them." We see here that one of God's ways 
of punishing people is by sending evil angels among 
them. He is punishing the backslidden holiness 
organizations to-day by letting these vultures from 
the pit swoop down upon them and prey on their 
carnal members. He is the same yesterday, to-day 
and forever. His ways are past finding out. When 
people cling to the Cross and walk in His pre- 
cepts He will not allow them to be deceived, but 
if they give way to fleshly lusts, refuse and rebel, 
He will give them over to seducing spirits. Of all 



Multitudes Being Deceived 35 

the abominations that have been known in the 
past centuries on the earth, this abomination of 
"Tongues" we believe is the worst. 

But God has been merciful enough not to 
leave those who are being deluded without suffi- 
cient warning. The multitudes are being deceived 
through hypocritical preachers and professors. 
Jesus said, "Beware of false prophets, which come 
to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are 
ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. 
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" 
(Matt. 7 : 15-16). We fail to see any good fruit from 
the world-wide revival that the "Tongues" people 
claim is in progress. They actually have the audacity 
to tell us that four hundred people in a certain local- 
ity have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 
They say most of those who are receiving this 
baptism are young women, and that young women 
more readily receive the tongues than others. They 
should read Acts 16 : 16-18 and find out where 
their so-called baptism originated : "And it came to 
pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel pos- 
sessed with a spirit of divination met us, which 
brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: 
The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, 
These men are the servants of the most high God, 
which shew unto us the way of salvation. And this 
did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned 
and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name 
of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came 



36 Demons and Tongues 

out the same hour." Paul permitted this unclean 
spirit to cry out many days before he rebuked him, 
and no sooner was it done than the masters of the 
young woman, seeing that their gains were lost, 
drew Paul and Silas before the rulers and had them 
beaten and cast into prison. 

The devil was certainly enraged when he 
had these two saints cast into prison and their 
feet put into stocks. Demons in that locality 
would not consent to vacate their strongholds 
without a protest, and no doubt a conference 
of arch-fiend:* was held in pandemonium to de- 
vise plans by which the work of Paul and Silas 
might be stopped, but we find them at midnight 
singing praises unto God. After the demons were 
routed, God had to work a miracle to deliver His 
servants. And so it is to-day, when a person dares 
in the name of Jesus Christ to rebuke the devil and 
tear the mask off those who are deceiving others, 
he will have the combined forces of perdition to 
meet, but the same God who sent an earthquake 
to shake the jail at Philippi is on hands to take a 
part in this kind of battle. He can send angels, 
pestilences, earthquakes, cyclones, or other forces 
to thwart the work of demons and establish His 
kingdom in the hearts of believers. Praise His name ! 

"I'd rather be the least of them, 
Who are the Lord's alone, 
Thau wear a rojal diadem, 
And sit upon a throne." 



CHAPTER IV. 

PERILOUS TIMES — GREAT REVIVAL PREDICTED— SINS OF THE 
FLESH — SEDUCING SPIRITS— RAPID GROWTH— THE GREAT APOS- 
TASY — DISSENSIONS — REVIVAL AT EPHESUS — SCEVA'S SEVEN 
SONS — THE CLASHING OF SWORDS — SUFFICIENT WARNING. 

HpHE "Tongues" leaders claim that organized 
"■* Christianity is on the eve of a profound and 
universal reformation ; also that there has been a 
world-wide outpouring of the Holy Spirit as an 
earnest of what is to follow. It is claimed that the 
apostate church will gradually return to its first 
works. Nothing could be more unscriptural than 
this. No church once fallen has ever been re- 
claimed. When an organization fails to lift up the 
Gospel standard, and to honor the doctrines of the 
New Testament, God turns away from it and 
raises up another body to represent Him. It is 
useless to try to reform a fallen church, but it is 
possible to awaken a few to its condition, and 
get them to a place of safety. 

"This know also, that in the last days perilous 
times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their 
own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, 
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, With- 
out natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, 
incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures 



38 Demons and Tongues 

more than lovers of God" (2 Tim. 3 : 1-4). The 
modern churches are full of people of this char- 
acter ; they have a form of godliness, but deny the 
power thereof, and the commandment is, "from 
such turn away." God will give people a chance 
to make their escape if they wish to do so. It 
is useless to stay with a fallen church expecting 
it to reform. For as it was in the days of Noah and 
Lot, so shall it be in the winding up of this dispen- 
sation. The flood came and swept the ante-diluvi- 
ans away, and fire and brimstone were rained upon 
Sodom after the angels had hurried Lot and some 
of the members of his family out. The apostate 
church is ripe for the tribulation judgments, and 
it can not escape the wrath of God. 

"For of this sort are they which creep into 
houses, and lead captive silly women laden with 
sins, led away with divers lusts"(2 Tim. 3 : 6). This 
is a true picture of the fallen church. Preachers and 
people are living self-indulgent lives, led away with 
divers lusts. Scarcely a daily newspaper can be 
picked up without an account of out-breaking sins 
among prominent church members in which minis- 
ters are involved. The sins of the flesh were the 
curse of the ante-diluvians, the sons of God inter- 
marrying with the daughters of men and producing 
a race of giants, proud, haughty, self-indulgent and 
God-defying. The iniquity became so great that the 
flood was sent as the Almighty's protest. If you 
will take notice to the description given of the 



Seducing Spirits 39 

ante-diluvians, by the inspired writers you will find 
that the same sins which destroyed them are the 
curse of the nations to-day — they are eating and 
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, thus 
showing that the flesh life predominates. The sins 
of the flesh, like the dreaded disease of leprosy, 
have eaten away the vitals of religious organiza- 
tions which have fallen to the very depths and can 
never be recovered. 

Of all the cunning craftiness that Satan has 
ever displayed as an angel of light, we believe the 
climax has been reached in this latter day sorcery of 
the "Tongues" movement, but we are not sur- 
prised, as it is in direct fulfilment of Scripture. 
1 Tim. 4:1 says, "Now the Spirit speaketh ex- 
pressly, that in the latter times some shall depart 
from the faith, giving head to seducing spirits, and 
doctrines of devils." Paul in this epistle to Timo- 
thy has no reference to people at large, but is 
showing the backslidden condition of the Gentile 
church in the last days. Multitudes who are giving 
heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils will 
never humble themselves enough to admit it. They 
are unwilling to believe that the enemy has been 
crafty enough to deceive them, but the fact is he 
has done so, and they might as well find it out first 
as last. In every land and clime the backslidden 
holiness movement has furnished fruitful soil for the 
"Tongues," just as the old church has for Christian 
Science. This accounts for the rapidity with which 



40 Demons and Tongues 

the "Tongues" movement has spread over the 
globe. It has gone like wild-fire, sweeping almost 
everything in its course. 

We quote the following from a "Tongues" 
paper : 

"It will soon be four years since the present 
outpouring of the Spirit became so general. Noth- 
ing we have ever seen spread so rapidly. Nothing 
on earth seemed to promise so much to the people 
of the earth. We saw from the first that if it was 
of God it would ultimately carry everything before 
it. We were soon convinced that it was from Gcd, 
and just as fully convinced that it would practically 
revolutionize the theories and teachings of men so 
far as they relate to the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 
It was so manifestly from God that it seemed to us 
all who really knew the voice of God would gladly 
accept it. In all essentials it so closely resembles 
the samples given in the word of God that it 
seemed to us all the world would give it a glad 
welcome. The ememies denounced it fiercely as be- 
ing of the devil. They seemed to think it a gigantic 
stroke of Satan to swallow up all the real spiritual 
life of the world. * * On the other hand many who 
had received the Holy Spirit failed to see the plan 
of God and thus the work suffered at their hands. 
It was sadly misrepresented both by its enemies 
and its friends." 

No one with a knowledge of the Word and 
spiritual understanding can fail to see from the 



The Great Apostasy 41 

foregoing statements that the "Tongues" move- 
ment came from below and not from above. That 
the great apostasy of the latter days is upon us no 
one can doubt and the very fact that this move- 
ment could have such a rapid spread under these 
conditions is proof that it is not of God. After 
Pentecost the early church had to meet all kinds 
of opposition in the spread of the Gospel. The 
resistance on the part of the Jews, heathen and all 
classes was so great that none of the apostles died 
a natural death, with perhaps one exception. The 
world was not evangelized then in a few months or 
years. Down through the centuries it has taken the 
blood of hundreds and thousands of martys to 
establish New Testament doctrines and lift up the 
cross of Jesus Christ. In the history of every true 
religious organization the greatest heroism has been 
manifested. Privations and sufferings and perse- 
cutions of every kind have always characterized 
the true Church. But what has this "Tongues" 
movement all amounted to? With one broad stroke 
Satan has swept the globe and left nothing behind 
but devastation and death. The means has been 
furnished for scores and hundreds to go to foreign 
lands to preach in what they supposed was the na- 
tive tongue of the Hindus, Chinese and every other 
nationality. But to their surprise they find that 
their "tongues" are of no use to them, that they 
cannot be understood at all. Why did not the Holy 
Spirit reveal this to them before they started? 



42 Demons and Tongues 

John 16: 13 says, "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of 
truth is come, he will guide you into all truth : for 
he shall not speak of himself ; but whatsoever he 
shall hear, that shall he speak : and he will show 
you things to come." Those whom the ' 'Tongues" 
people have sent to foreign lands, if they have 
not had the means to return, had to settle down 
and learn the language of the natives. Their great 
schemes of evangelizing the heathen proved to be 
air- castles or floating bubbles that burst when 
they reached their destination. The Holy Spirit is 
God, and we certainly credit Him with having 
intelligence superior to this. You will notice in 
the above quotation the writer says, "Many who 
had received the Holy Spirit failed to see the plan 
of God, and thus the work suffered at their hands." 
Reader, imagine a person baptized with the Holy 
Ghost and yet unable to see God's plans and the 
work suffering at his hands. What kind of person 
is the Holy Ghost? Is He not the third person of 
the Trinity? "For there are three that bear record 
in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy 
Ghost : and these three are one. And there are 
three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the 
water, and the blood: and these three agree in 
one"(l John 5 : 7-8). What God knows the Holy 
Spirit knows, and the Holy Spirit will not direct 
any one contrary to the Father and the Son. Is it 
the third person of the Trinity that these people are 
receiving who claim to have the Holy Ghost with the 



Dissensions 43 

sign of tongues? Verily, they have received an arch- 
fiend who has come in the disguise of an angel. 

The same writer says, "It is more than sad to 
see some trying to establish their claims as origin- 
ators and founders of the work." We might add, 
that so far as its origin is concerned there can be 
no doubt as to that, for the work unmistakably 
bears the marks of its father, the devil. The per- 
sons here referred to, who are trying to establish 
their claims as the originators of the "Tongues" 
movement of course claim they have received the 
baptism with the sign of tongues. If they have re- 
ceived the Holy Ghost why should they be making 
false claims or trying to organize something that God 
does not want organized? Why do they want to 
be called the "projectors" or "field directors," if 
this is contrary to the Holy Spirit whom they 
claim to have received ? 

This writer also says, "Others have worked to 
get committees appointed or councils and have 
worked to get to be the chairman of such councils 
or committees." He also says, "Only a few of 
these men are ambitious schemers ; most of them 
simply failed to see the plan of God." You see it is 
claimed here they have their Pentecost and are 
really friends to the work, but do not understand 
God's plan, yet they are accused of being ambitious 
for leadership and to be called the "projectors" and 
"directors" of the work. Are not these the mani- 
festations of carnality? A person could not even 



44 Demons and Tongues 

be saved and have such unholy ambitions and 
desires. 

Thank God, we are not ignorant of the devil's 
devices and are ready to expose his works any- 
where they are found. With few exceptions, he has 
swallowed up nearly every religious publication in 
the land and stamped it with ' 'Tongues,'* and on 
every page the trail of the serpent can be found. If 
St. Paul were present to-day to help us fight in 
this battle against principalities and powers, and 
against unclean spirits he would expose the black 
arts of these hypocrites and compel them to make 
a bonfire of their papers and books as he did in 
the days of old. 

At Ephesus the mighty power of God was 
made manifest in the revival that followed Paul's 
preaching, who entered the synagogue and spoke 
boldly the things concerning the kingdom of God. 
In this revival "divers were hardened, and believed 
not, but spake evil of the way before the multi- 
tude." Then Paul departed from them and went to 
the school of Tyrannus where he continued to 
teach and preach for the space of two years. All 
that dwelt in Asia had the privilege of hearing the 
word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks. 
God never turns people over to be ravaged by evil 
spirits until they have hardened their hearts against 
His truths. No man can go to perdition until the 
Holy Spirit has first given him up ; neither can a 
person become the victim of a strong delusion 



Sceva's Seven Sons 45 

until He has turned away from him. When He 
ceases to strive with him then evil spirits take pos- 
session. In Paul's revival, sinners were converted 
and believers sanctified ; the sick were healed, and 
demons had to leave their human habitations. 

Among the Jews there were those who had 
hardened their hearts against the Gospel, but when 
they saw the sick healed and lunatics restored to 
their right minds they wanted to do some wonder- 
ful works also. 

Sceva's seven sons were among the vagabond 
Jews who worked in curious arts. They took it 
upon themselves to call over those who had evil 
spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, "We 
adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth." 
An evil spirit in a man said, "Jesus I know, and 
Paul I know; but who are ye? And the man in 
whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and over- 
came them, and prevailed against them, so that 
they fled out of that house naked and wounded." 
These Jews did not want to meet the conditions 
that Paul laid down for their obtaining salvation, 
but they wanted to work miracles. This is exactly 
the condition among the "Tongues" people to- 
day — they will not repent of their sins and 
straighten up their lives, but they want to do great 
things. God has said that no flesh should glory in 
His presence. "The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, 
and the Spirit against the flesh." The "Tongues" 
movement is a movement of the flesh. It is corrupt 



46 Demons and Tongues 

to the very core. Among its adherents we have 
heard of the most outbreaking and flagrant sins. 
Free-loveism, like the coils of a serpent, has 
wrapped itself around some of the ' 'Tongues" 
victims and sunk them into the lowest depths of 
immorality and degradation. These persons have 
invariably professed the Pentecostal baptism with 
tongues, some of them speaking, as they have 
claimed, in many different languages. 

In the wake of a Holy Ghost revival the devil 
always stirs up the forces of darkness and does his 
most ghastly work. When evil spirits are cast out 
they seek for other habitations and usually find an 
entrance to the hearts of those who have refused 
to walk in the light. When Jesus cast a legion 
of devils out of the Gadarene they entered into the 
swine and the whole herd plunged over the preci- 
pice into the sea. They much prefer to live in 
human beings and will take possession of them 
when the opportunity is given them to do so. 

The swine is an unclean beast and is a type of 
carnality. Wherever the carnal nature is found in 
hearts evil spirits seek a lodging place. Jesus said, 
"The prince of this world cometh and findeth noth- 
ing in me." When carnality is destroyed Satan has 
no more claim on the human heart ; there is nothing 
in it that belongs to him, hence it behooves every 
regenerated person to get sanctified as soon as pos- 
sible after his conversion. May the Lord not only 
deliver people from eating swine flesh, but save 



Sceva's Seven Sons 47 

them from the old corruptible nature of which it is 
a type. Demons and swine are closely associated. 

We have known persons at the beginning of 
some of our revival meetings who could scarcely 
hold out against the pleadings of the Spirit, but 
after resisting for a time they grew hard and indif- 
ferent to the strongest appeals that were made to 
them ; they became critical and could scarcely see 
any good in anything or anybody. Then they 
turned away altogether and sought the company of 
those who were of a reprobate mind. Such per- 
sons have found congenial affiliations among the 
"Tongues" people. 

The seven sons of Sceva had heard the Gospel 
at Ephesus and were given the opportunity to re- 
pent and get right with God, but they failed to do so, 
and were found fleeing naked before their demoni- 
acal pursuer. Any person who has been caught in the 
"Tongues" delusion, if he ever had the habiliments 
of righteousness, has lost them, and in his shame 
has no cloak with which to cover his spiritual 
nakedness. What a deplorable condition one is in 
who has turned away from God and has gone to 
consulting witches and wizards ! The lust of the 
flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life 
will bring him to this. In the meantime he is 
utterly helpless and unable to see himself. No 
person can go through a Holy Ghost revival with- 
out being made better or worse. He must either 
yield to God and walk in the light that is falling 



48 Demons and Tongues 

upon his pathway or be brought under the control 
of evil spirits. When he refuses the counsel of the 
righteous he does so at the peril of his own soul. 

Like the sons of Sceva and the man possessed 
with demons, there is often a clashing of swords 
among the ' 'Tongues" people. Evil spirits are un- 
willing to be routed by their own kind without a 
protest. Some are stronger than others and refuse to 
vacate their tenements at the command of those who 
are presumptuous enough to attempt to rout them. 

In a Western city there were four different 
bands of ' 'Tongues" all fighting one another and 
professing to have the Holy Spirit. They were 
so at loggerheads, some of them would tell 
those of other factions that they had devils in 
them. This continued until a prominent leader 
among them commanded the demons to come out 
of a young woman who was not of his band. It 
was a critical time for these modern sorcerers, for 
the young woman had been recognized by various 
"Tongues" leaders as having the real Pentecostal 
baptism, speaking fluently, they said, seven or more 
languages. When she fell to the floor in one of her 
spells she was approached by this honored advocate 
of "Tongues" who took it upon himself to com- 
mand the evil spirits to come out of her. 

One can imagine the consternation of many 
who were present. The news of this young 
woman's ability to speak in tongues had been 
heralded from city to city. She was just enter- 



Conflicting Statements 49 

ing into womanhood and no one believed it was 
possible for demons to get possession of one so 
young and innocent. If it had been some one who 
was hardened in sin it would have appealed to 
them as being more reasonable, but for a young, 
beautiful girl brought up under the roof of parents 
who professed to know God to be possessed with so 
many demons was more than they could compre- 
hend. The father of the young woman, who 
was at first an enthusiastic "Tongueist," was com- 
pletely at his wit's end ; he took his daughter 
away from the meetings and had nothing more to 
do with them. The leader who commanded the evil 
spirits to come out is an advocate of the ' 'Tongues" 
heresy and is widely known as a writer and pub- 
lisher. Another leader of one of these bands frankly 
admitted that some of his people had the devil's 
tongues and that their lives were crooked. 

We quote the following from a ' 'Tongues" 
paper published by A. A. Boddy of England. This 
article written by the wife of the publisher, whether 
so intended or not, is a repudiation of the 
1 'Tongues" doctrine. We know of no editor that 
has been more widely quoted among the "Tongues" 
people than A. A. Boddy, and no doubt the appear- 
ance of this article has created consternation among 
those in the "Tongues" movement who have con- 
sidered him authority in the past. 

"The baptism is to be filled with God, and 
tongues will follow ; but to speak in tongues only, 
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50 Demons and Tongues 

is not, as I can see, a sufficient sign of the baptism. 

"I am more and more convinced of this, that as 
soon as a person is truly born of God and has Christ 
in his life, then the Holy Ghost will fall and he will 
speak in tongues, if he expects to do so, but I do 
believe that merely speaking in tongues is not nec- 
essarily a convincing sign that a person has got God 
in him. 

"Of course the deep spiritual work may be 
done after a person has spoken in tongues, if he 
goes on, but in the meantime, in many cases, much 
dishonor and damage is done to God's work. 

"The trouble is so few know what the baptism 
really means. It means to be filled with God." 
— Mrs. Mary Boddy. 

Undoubtedly this editor and wife have had 
experience with those who spoke in tongues that 
manifested demon power in some way, which they 
were not able to reconcile with the "baptism in the 
Holy Ghost," therefore they were forced to come 
to the conclusion that tongues was not always a 
sign of the "baptism." But most any one can get 
the tongues "if he expects to do so," whether he 
has God or not. 

Are not these things sufficient warning to all 
who look with favor upon this movement of latter 
day sorcery and witchcraft? When once brought 
under the spell of witchcraft it is hard for 
one ever to be recovered. We have had per- 
sons who were caught in these Satanic traps, 



Physical Wrecks 51 

after they had gotten their eyes open to the 
whole thing as being the work of the devil, to 
come and tell us that they were physical wrecks 
and that it seemed impossible for them to ever 
recover from the awful effects of this demon- work- 
ing power. They would sit in our services under 
the most powerful preaching, apparently unable to 
yield to the pleadings of the Spirit, yet realizing 
that they were in a lost condition. One young 
woman who had become the victim of "Tongues" 
told us that she had suffered such losses through it 
that her mother had died of a broken heart, and 
that she herself was unable to rally from the awful 
effects of it. In our work of evangelism from coast 
to coast, and across the sea, this is only one 
instance in many that we have encountered. While 
people are under the spell of demon power they 
find a strange pleasure in it which they imagine is 
the joy of the Holy Spirit. But think of their 
sorrowful condition when they awaken to the fact 
that their joy was not real, but only that which 
was imparted by demons. If there were not some 
kind of joy in connection with the "Tongues" expe- 
rience the devil would not be able to deceive so 
many people. 



CHAPTER V. 

STRANGE APPEARANCE OF A LEADER— PENTECOST REPORTED AT 
LOS ANGELES — GOSPEL MEETINGS— PEOPLE WARNED— DE- 
LIVERED THROUGH READING PILLAR OF FIRE — IN GER- 
MANY — REPULSIVE ALTAR SCENES— A "TONGUES" 
MEETING — CALLED EACH OTHER LIARS 

In the spring of 1906, a colored man, introduc- 
ing himself as Seymour, called at our Bible School 
at Denver. He was on his way to Los Angeles, 
California, and took the opportunity of visiting 
our School while passing through the city. We did 
not know he was in the building until he walked 
into the dining room. Some one had shown him 
through the building and brought him into the 
dining room. 

He had a strange appearance which somewhat 
aroused our curiosity, and as he claimed to be a 
preacher of the Gospel we called on him to pray. 
He responded with a good deal of fervor, but oh 
the feeling that came over us! We thought of 
demons, snakes and other slimy creatures before he 
had finished praying. After he had left the room 
a number of the students told that they felt that he 
was possessed with evil spirits. 

He was very untidy in his appearance; he 
wore no collar and had a greenish looking brass 



Pentecost Reported 53 

button exposed in the band of his shirt. In our 
evangelistic and missionary tours we have met all 
kinds of religious fakirs and tramps, but we felt 
that he excelled them all. There was a cause for 
our feeling this way ; the Lord wanted us to see 
this man and learn something of him, knowing that 
Satan was going to use him in the outbreaking of 
the "Tongues" on the Pacific Coast. 

It was only a short time after his arrival at 
Los Angeles that the news was being heralded 
around that there was a great revival breaking out 
in that city. It was said that God had raised up a 
colored man to bring Pentecost back to the earth 
again, and that people through his ministry were 
receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost and 
speaking in tongues. A few weeks before, we had 
been at Los Angeles preaching and knew well the 
deplorable spiritual condition of the professed holi- 
ness people there. Most of them, while they made 
a profession, were backslidden in heart, and time 
and again under our ministry the Lord tried to get 
them to repent and confess their backslidings, but 
they absolutely refused to do so. A more self- 
righteous, self-sufficient people we never met. 
Week after week we preached to them and urged 
them to repent and do their first works over. 

Two years previous to this we had a large 
Gospel tent erected in the very heart of the city, 
and preached for several weeks and truly the Lord 
gave us a harvest of souls. We preached in halls 



54 Demons and Tongues 

for weeks before and after the meetings in the 
tent, and the Lord did not fail to honor the mes- 
sages in the salvation of souls. But the conditions 
were similar to those at Ephesus; divers were 
hardened and turned away from the truth. Night 
after night as the messages went forth under the 
unction of the Spirit the forces of darkness strongly 
resisted us, but God gave the victory. Hundreds 
and even thousands attended the services during 
our labors at Los Angeles. Preachers from high- 
steepled churches were frequently seen in the 
congregations, and one very prominent preacher 
who is now a bishop attended regularly, and, we 
understand, told his people that we were preaching 
the truth. 

Before the gales of perdition began to blow, God 
let the holiness professors of Los Angeles see their 
tireless condition and gave them a chance to repent 
and get right with Him, but this, with few excep- 
tions, they refused to do. The devil was even then 
preparing a net to catch their feet, and after they 
hardened their hearts and resisted the pleadings of 
the Spirit, they were taken into his net and carried 
away in the most hellish outburst of demoniacal 
power that has probably ever been known under 
the name of religion. 

We had a presentiment of God's judgments com- 
ing on the city, simply from the fact that many, like 
the Sons of Sceva, had hardened their hearts against 
the truth and turned away. We frankly told them 



People Warned 55 

in the public services that something out of the or- 
dinary was coming to Los Angeles, and there were at 
least a score of persons present who had the same im- 
pression and testified to the fact. We did not know 
just how God was going to visit them, but knew a 
scourge of some kind was near at hand, and of all 
the calamities that could have fallen upon a people, 
we verily believe that this demoniacal outbreaking 
of tongues is the worst. It is bad enough to be pos- 
sessed with demons, but when they get control of 
the vocal organs and talk about the blood of the 
atonement, the coming of Christ, etc., it is more 
than most people have ever thought they were cap- 
able of doing. 

Many reliable persons, some of whom are with 
us to-day, have told us of things they saw in the 
so-called Azusa Street Mission. Some of our own 
missionaries, who were laboring in Los Angeles, went 
to see for themselves, and they declared that what 
they saw and heard from those who were under the 
spell of demons far exceeded anything they could 
have imagined or that ever had been told them. 

While dictating these lines Sister N , who 

is writing for us, stopped and told us the following 
story. "When I visited the Azusa Street Mission 
the first person that attracted my attention was a 
woman with a thin, white silk waist on who stood 
shaking from head to foot. She had a sad, far away 
look in her eyes. There were several rows of chairs 
in front of her that were filled with seekers. The 



56 Demons and Tongues 

colored man, Mr. Seymour, was preaching, but my 
attention was attracted to the woman who contin- 
ued to shake until a man sitting in front of her slid 
down out of his chair and went under a spell. 

"I then lost sight of the woman. The man who 
fell in the vision was pale and thin, and con- 
tinued in his position on the floor until after a num- 
ber of seekers had gathered around the altar. Then 
he arose and staggered to them and began to shake 
his hands in front of their faces and wave his arms 
over their heads and moan. He was apparently 
unconscious while he was doing this. Then he put 
his hands on the heads of the women and began to 
shake their hair. Some of them lost control of 
themselves and went under a spell. He rubbed a 
man's jaws until the victim tumbled over and re- 
mained apparently in an unconscious state for half 
an hour, when suddenly he began to stutter and 
jabber. Those who claimed to have the tongues 
cried out, 'He has the baptism, he has the bap- 
tism ! ' 

"A young colored woman was doing her best 
to get the tongues ; she went through all kinds of 
muscular contortions in her efforts to get her 
tongue to work. 

1 'While work at the altar was going on a colored 
woman had her arms around a white man's neck 
praying for him. One man of mature years leaped 
out of his chair and began to stutter. He did not 
utter a distinct syllable, but as fast as he could 



A ' 'Tongues" Meeting 57 

make his tongue work he said tut- tut- tut- tut- tut- 
tut- tut. This, of course, they claimed was evidence 
that he had the baptism. The woman with the 
silk waist on appeared again, this time singing a 
far-away tune that sounded very unnatural and re- 
pulsive. There were others who mingled their 
voices with hers in the production of these strange 
notes. 

"While the altar call was being made a woman 
walked up to the front and kissed a man. It was 
evident that the man, who was one of the prominent 
workers in the mission, was not her husband or even 
a relative. Kissing between the sexes is a common 
occurrence in the "Tongues" meetings." 

The following in part is from the pen of one 
of our preachers, who in company with another 
brother attended a "Tongues" meeting. "We ar- 
rived about eight o'clock. We took seats and sat 
quietly until 9 :30. The brother who was with me 

had met one of the leaders in L , and as the 

work around the altar had begun, we thought it 
would be all right for him to speak to this man and 
hand him some of our tracts. He then spoke to 
the preacher who was in charge, and asked him if 
we might have the privilege of giving out some of 
our literature. He gave his consent so all could 
hear him. He said, 'Take their tracts ; they will 
do you no harm.' Of course we were glad to have 
the opportunity, and went through the audience 
and gave them out. 
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58 Demons and Tongues 

"Some of the people became very much ex- 
cited and began to mutter in tongues. They asked 
God to strike us down with His judgments right 
there. This was said in plain English. One of the 
leaders, whom our brother had previously met, 
called him a liar, a blasphemer, dishonest, etc. 
Then followed a controversy between this man and 
the preacher in charge ; one telling the other he 
did not believe the half he had said. The people 
in the audience observing the discord saw that if 
one had the Lord the other did not. Of course 
these persons had the tongues. 

"As a natural consequence the work at the altar 
was broken up, and the preacher in charge told the 
people to bring the papers and tracts we had 
handed to them to the platform. He wanted to 
make a bonfire out of them. A few responded to 
his request. He then called for a bucket and 
put the papers and tracts into it and burned them. 
During the meeting he acknowledged that some of 
their people had the devil's tongues. 'But of course,' 
he said, 'some have the genuine tongues.' 

"There was one person at the altar who ap- 
peared to be an honest seeker, but the controversy 
between the leaders, and other things he heard 
evidently caused him to seriously consider the situa- 
tion. He told of the good experience he once had, 
but for some time he had been dissatisfied and was 
struggling to get free. Scores like this man go to 
the "Tongues" meetings expecting to get some- 



A "Tongues" Meeting 59 

thing to satisfy their souls. They hear great reports 
in regard to the things that are going on under the 
name of Pentecost, and go, having no idea that it is 
the devil's counterfeit. 1 Cor. 10 : 20-21 says, 'But 
I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, 
they sacrifice to devils, and not to God : and I 
would not that ye should have fellowship with 
devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and 
the cup of devils ; ye cannot be partakers of the 
Lord's table, and the table of devils.' 

"One of the great arguments of the "Tonguists" 
to prove that they have sought and obtained the 
Pentecostal baptism is the fact that the Lord will 
not give a person a stone when he asks bread, 
neither will He give him a serpent when he asks for a 
fish (Matt. 7: 9-10). See how cunning the devil is! 
He knows the Lord will not give stones and 
serpents for bread and fish, and uses this argu- 
ment to beguile those who are ignorant of his 
devices. It is true the Lord never deceives people, 
but when they sit down to the devil's table they 
have to take his bill of fare. He will turn the 
hearts of those who were once under the melting 
influence of the Holy Spirit into stone, and poison 
them with the venom of these "Tongues" like the 
bite of a serpent. One who puts his hand into a 
nest of vipers is running a terrible risk even though 
he is reaching for bread." 

We know of those who have become so hard- 
ened under the influence of this demon power they 



60 Demons and Tongues 

are entirely unlike what they were once. They will 
turn away with a cold indifference from those who 
are suffering on their account and manifest no 
sympathy whatever. In the meantime they will 
threaten them with the judgments of God because 
they refuse to sit down to the table of devils with 
them, and they imagine they are pleasing God when 
they make it hard for those who cannot be brought 
under the power of seducing spirits. John 16 : 2 
says, "Yea, the time cometh that whosoever killeth 
you will think that he doeth God service." 

We quote the following from a letter received 
from a man who, through reading the Pillar of 
Fire, was delivered from the devil's tongues in a 
city in Pennsylvania: "I attended the "Tongues" 

meeting at H . Here I found men and women 

lying on the floor in all shapes, and the workers 
would put big blankets over them. These people 
on the floor would be jabbering all at once in what 
they called unknown tongues. While I was pray- 
ing one of the workers got hold of me and said, 
Holy Ghost, we command Thee to go into this 
soul. The workers were jabbering and shaking 
their hands over me, and a hypnotic demon power 
(as I know now) took possession of me, and I fell 
among the people on the floor and knew nothing 
for ten hours. When I came to my senses I was 
weak and my jaws were so tired they ached. I 
believed then that this power was of God. They 
said I was wonderfully blest, and Rev. W sent 



In Germany 61 

me from one place to another so that I could 
jabber in tongues. I was told that while I was 
speaking in tongues the people would fall on their 
faces and say, 'Yes, Lord,' 'We will, Lord,' 
thinking that it was God who was speaking through 
me. I am now jumping and praising God for 
delivering me from the devil's tongues. When we 
get the real power of God we can see that this 
1 'Tongues" movement is of the devil. Your paper, 
the Pillar of Fire, is stirring up things here. 

The meetings in McK and H have been 

broken up. I am now going to towns where I spoke 
in tongues and telling them it is of the devil. I 
know if it had not been for the Pillar of Fire 
I would have gone to hell. I am so glad that God 
has some of His own in the world yet. Keep 
praying for me." 

In "Der Evangelist" we read the following 
about the "Tongues." 

THE PENTECOSTAL MOVEMENT 

N. Gropmann, Berlin-Rudorf, Germany, gives 
an account of one of his own experiences with the 
people of the above named movement in regard to 
speaking in "unknown tongues." 

He says, "At Brother H — 's home in Beek, 
Germany, I had the opportunity to get personally 
acquainted with a spirit of this kind. A sister be- 
longing to the M. E. Church visited the annual 
conference at Muehlheim a. d. Ruhr, and on this 
occasion through laying on of hands by Mr. G 



62 Demons and Tongues 

of the same city received the gift of tongues. 
However, she soon found that instead of receiving 
her Pentecost she had let a demon take possession 
of her. She called for us to pray with her that she 
might be delivered from it and its influence. We 
responded and prayed with her for hours. Previous 
to this time the spirit had been talking about the 
things of God, such as Calvary, the blood, glory, 
revivals, etc. But now he begin to talk in a fearful, 
profane manner and call us all sorts of names. In 
the name of Jesus we commanded the unclean 
spirit to depart from her, but he, stoutly refusing, 
told us we better not waste our time, but go home, 
for he intended to stay. Therefore he began to 
torment the sister by accusing her of disloyalty to 
God and pronounced curse upon curse upon her, 
predicting her destruction and death in the near 
future. He began to tear and pull her around the 
room in a terrible way. The more we prayed the 
more furious he became — cursing and swearing at 
us. I am not nervous, but I felt a cold shiver run- 
ning down my back and felt as if the room was 
filled with demons. The climax was reached when 
we laid hands on her in the name of Jesus. We 
could not possibly be mistaken concerning the 
reality of things, for we heard him curse, swear and 
call us names. The language was so shocking that 
I could not very well mention any of it here. Often 
I was able to understand without the sister inter- 
preting — a mixture of Latin, Italian and French. 



In Germany 63 

Now and then I was able to catch a word, for the 
spirit spoke very rapidly. I shiver to think that 
these cursing and swearing demons found and are 
finding entrance to the hearts of people. Where 
are people getting to when they give place to such 
devils? Is it not a sign of the times? Is this the 
beginning of 'strong delusions' which God will 
send upon the earth and into which people that 
refuse to walk in the light will be ensnared ?" — From 
"Der Evangelist," Bremen, Germany, Vol. 60, 
Dec. 11, 1909. 

Some professors of Christianity would not like 
to be found in dark rooms where spiritual seances 
are carried on, but they have no hesitation in con- 
gregating with those who give themselves over to 
strange workings of demon power under the name 
of religion. May God open their eyes to their de- 
ceived and lost condition before the doors of heaven 
are everlastingly closed against them. 

Among the "Tongues" people there are those 
who claim to be prophets and prophetesses. From 
time to time the things that they prophesied have 
been published in their papers. Among those was a 
prophecy concerning Pike's Peak. This peak, they 
said, within four months would have a volcanic 
eruption, and the people of Cripple Creek and sur- 
rounding towns were warned to flee for their lives. 
Nearly four years have passed and there has been 
no burning crater with floods of lava to make its 
appearance. Prophecies were also made among 



64 Demons and Tongues 

them after the earthquake on the Pacific Coast of 
dreadful things that would soon come to pass which 
of course have never been fulfilled. 

When the ''Tongues" first broke out there 
were two divisions, one led by Seymour and the 
other led by Parham. Parham's crowd said Sey- 
mour's people had the devil in them, and vice 
versa. At the various "Tongues" meetings there 
was strife among the workers as to who should be 
the first to lay their hands on the seekers. When 
the jaws of the seeker began to work and he com- 
menced to mutter in strange gibberish the worker 
who had his hands on him at the time would get 
the glory. Then they would slander one another 
behind their backs and say they were possessed with 
evil spirits, which of course was the truth. It was 
a case of the pot calling the kettle black. 

Our workers have been stationed in Los An- 
geles during the whole history of the ' 'Tongues" 
movement and have watched it closely from the 
very first outbreaking of demon power in Seymour's 
meetings. The conditions have been such that it 
would be impossible to publish the things that have 
occurred there, things that they have actually seen 
and heard. The familiarity between the sexes in 
the public meetings has been shocking. Hell has 
certainly reaped an awful harvest and infidelity 
has become more strongly rooted than ever before 
on the Pacific Coast. The city of the angels, as it 
is called, is an infirmary for people of all manner of 



Ministry of Healing Perverted 65 

diseases and physical ailments. They have gone 
there from every land and clime in search of health, 
and all kinds of extravagances have been taught on 
the subject of divine healing by carnal, professors 
and leaders, some of whom were anxious to gain a 
following and thus become famous, and of course 
the soil was well prepared for the spreading of the 
"Tongues." The ministry of healing has been so 
perverted in Los Angeles that it is almost impossible 
to deal with the subject as it should be and place 
the gift of healing where it belongs. For years the 
devil has had the full length of rope there on this 
subject, and of course he has made good use of it. 
Many persons of wealth have wanted to be healed 
of their diseases, but they have had no use for 
salvation. The way of the Cross is despised, and 
the flesh life has had the pre-eminence. 



CHAPTER VL 

GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT — DO ALL SPEAK IN TONGUES— THE AUTHOR'S 

CONVERSION — COMMAND OF LANGUAGE — THE JEWS AFTER 

THE RESTORATION — MIRACLE IN HEARING — MOSES' 

ROD — THE "GIFT" A FAILURE — GOOD MEMORIES. 

The 12th chapter of First Corinthians sets 
forth nine different gifts of the Spirit, one of these 
being the gift of tongues. "Now there are diversi- 
ties of gifts, but the same Spirit. * * For to one is 
given by the Spirit the word of wisdom ; to another 
the word of knowledge by the same Spirit ; To an- 
other faith by the same Spirit ; to another the gifts 
of healing by the same Spirit ; To another the 
working of miracles; to another prophecy; to an- 
other discerning of spirits ; to another divers kinds of 
tongues ; to another the interpretation of tongues ; 
But all these worketh that one and the selfsame 
Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will." 
We notice that "divers" is in italics and is not in 
the original. The right reading would be, "to an- 
other kinds of tongues." The gift of tongues and 
the interpreting are the last in the list. 

The question is asked in the 30th verse, "Do 
all speak in tongues?" This verse accords with the 
11th showing that they do not. Neither is there any 



Author's Conversion 67 

great stress put upon the gift of tongues, as will be 
seen in the first verse of the next chapter: "Though 
I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and 
have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, 
or a tinkling cymbal." Paul says in chapter 14, 
verse 19, "Yet in the church I had rather speak 
five words with my understanding, that by my 
voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand 
words in an unknown tongue." These scriptures are 
sufficient to show the estimate that Paul put on 
the gift of tongues. The Corinthian church was 
born of the Holy Ghost under Paul's ministry and 
naturally we would expect the gifts of the Spirit to 
be made manifest and to be placed where they be- 
long, but how about this latter-day movement 
which unmistakably bears every evidence of being 
born from beneath and not from above. The fruit 
of the Spirit is not in it. Neither are the gifts of 
the Spirit made manifest which the Corinthian 
church possessed. Their woeful lack of spiritual 
discernment is appalling. People who are converted 
often possess the gifts of the Spirit to a marvelous 
degree, but the "Tongues" people show that their 
lights have been totally eclipsed. 

We know the fruit of the Spirit when we see 
it. We have been too long in the Christian war- 
fare to be deceived by the witchcraft and sorcery 
in this movement. 

At the age of 16 the writer experienced the 
new birth, and after years of faithful cross-bearing 



68 Demons and Tongues 

was sanctified wholly, or in other words baptized 
with the Holy Spirit. There was no manifestation 
of strange tongues in this baptism, but as truly as 
ever the disciples received the Holy Ghost on the 
day of Pentecost we were baptized by the same 
Spirit. The power of God rested upon us from 
day to day and marvelous results followed from our 
ministry in the conviction and conversion of sinners 
and the sanctification of believers. It would take 
volumes to give our readers even a partial account 
of the results which followed the outpouring of the 
Holy Spirit upon us. 

Our natural timidity, which had hindered our 
service for the Master for so long, was swept away. 
Our tongue was touched with a live coal from the 
altar. There was no difficulty to command language 
in our own tongue. We were enabled to express 
our thoughts in words that we had never used 
before and scarcely knew the meaning of. They 
would come to our mind and fit into the right place 
when we were standing before an audience. At 
times the pressure of the Spirit was so great upon 
us it seemed the earthen vessel would almost break. 

Just before delivering a message where there 
were vital issues involved there were times when 
we were unable to stand on our feet for half or 
three-quarters of an hour, but when the moment 
came to deliver the message strength was given us. 
We have never lost the power of the Holy Ghost. 
We still have the Spirit that discerns between the 
false and the true. 



Jews after Restoration 69 

The question is often asked, will the Gentile 
church in the last days again possess the gift of 
tongues. Our answer is, all things are possible 
with God. If His name can be glorified through 
the gift in these last days we certainly should be on 
the lookout for it, but it will take some time for 
the people to recover from the effects of this 
counterfeit "Tongues" movement before God could 
get glory out of the real gift of tongues. 

When the Jews are gathered back to Palestine 
and the nations of the earth go up to Jerusalem to 
hear the Gospel preached, undoubtedly God will 
enable the sons of Abraham to speak in languages so 
they can be understood. The occasion will demand 
it. If nations are to be converted in a day, it will 
be necessary for them to understand the language 
of those who are ministering unto them. The 
gifts of the Spirit will be imparted, the dead will 
be raised and wonderful things be accomplished as 
it was in the days of old. 

We have never seen a person who was actually 
raised from the dead, but we know the time is com- 
ing in the history of the Hebrews when the dead 
will be raised. We have seen a number of persons 
during the years of our ministry who we knew 
were dying, who in answer to the prayer of faith 
were brought back to life and health, but the 
breath had not entirely left their bodies. 

We have had persons come to us who could 
understand but little English, and tell us that 



70 Demons and Tongues 

while we were preaching they understood every 
word we said. We remember a German woman 
especially who was converted in one of our 
first revival meetings. She grasped our hand and 
gave us to understand, in German and broken 
English, that she had understood every word we 
had said. She was asked if she understood other 
preachers who had preached in the same meet- 
ing, and she affirmed that she did not. This is 
only one incident out of many of a similar character. 

Acts 2 : 8 says, "And how hear we every man 
in his own tongue, wherein we were born?" We be- 
lieve there is as much in hearing as in speaking. 
When the Holy Spirit speaks through a person it is 
possible for Him to make people to understand, even 
though they are not acquainted with the language 
in which the message is given. If we were called to 
foreign fields we would not expect to put in years 
learning the language of the people to whom we 
went to minister. We would have faith for divine 
illumination and help to acquire the language of 
the natives in a short time. 

If all the people who were present on the day 
of Pentecost heard Peter's message in their own 
language this was a greater miracle than the gift of 
tongues. Most any old clairvoyant can mutter and 
speak words that no one can understand, but there 
is a limit to the power of demons, there are 
things in the spiritual realm that they are unable to 
comprehend. 



Moses' Rod 71 

When Moses and Aaron cast their rod down 
before Pharaoh it became a serpent. Then Pharaoh 
called up the sorcerers and the magicians, and with 
their enchantments they did the same thing ; they 
cast down their rods and they became serpents, but 
Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. Pharaoh saw 
this, yet he continued to harden his heart and re- 
fused to let Israel go. 

The Lord commanded Moses and Aaron to 
take their rod and stretch it out over the waters of 
Egypt that they might become blood. The fish in 
the rivers died, and the water became so unwhole- 
some that no one could drink of it. The magicians 
continued to work with their enchantments and 
succeeded in turning some water to blood. The 
famine of water was upon them, and the Egyptians 
were everywhere digging around the river beds to 
find a pure stream, but for all this Pharaoh would 
not relent, he hardened his heart and went into 
his house. 

When the plague of frogs was on the land and 
they came up into his bed-chamber and dough- 
troughs he had the magicians trying to bring up frogs 
with their enchantments, and they did so. But when 
the plague of lice came they could go no further. 
They repeatedly tried and failed. Then they ac- 
knowledged to Pharaoh that the finger of God was 
upon them, but still the king's heart was hardened. 

God continued His plagues until the magicians 
could not stand before Moses because of the boils, 



72 Demons and Tongues 

"for the boils were upon the magicians, and upon 
all the Egyptians'^ Exodus 9: 11). 

The claims that the "Tongues'' people have 
made of being able to speak the languages 
of the heathen have been proved false time and 
again. They found that their so-called tongues 
were a complete failure in foreign lands. Often- 
times when they thought they were speaking in the 
tongues of angels they were using the vilest lan- 
guage that could possibly fall from the lips of a 
human being. We will give one instance with which 
we are familiar. A person who had received the 
tongues thought he was talking about the coming 
of Jesus, to a Chinaman, who listened for a while 
and then started after him with a knife, threatening 
his life. When the Chinaman was asked what caused 
him to become so angry, he said the person with 
the tongues was cursing him and his gods and using 
other language too shameful to repeat. 

We have known persons who were reared in 
homes where several languages were spoken, and 
while they were unable to speak in more than one 
language, under the hypnotic spell of demons in the 
"Tongues" meetings they have been able to speak, 
in a measure, in these foreign tongues that they were 
familiar with when they were children. Of course 
they would come out of a spell claiming to have 
the "Tongues," when the fact is, under a prolonged 
nervous strain, through some kind of strange phe- 
nomena that we are unable to explain, they were 



Good Memories 73 

enabled to recall things that had been forgotten 
for years. We note the fact that those who claim 
to have received the tongues are of extremely nerv- 
ous temperament, many of whom, at some time in 
their lives, have suffered from nervous prostration. 
The writer is personally acquainted with a number 
of persons of this kind who now are identified with 
the "Tongues" movement. 

It must be remembered that some people have 
good memories and as they go from place to place 
coming in contact with the "Tongues" people they 
learn a sort of lingo that makes it appear that they 
have received what they call their "Pentecost." All 
they need is to utter a few sentences in some for- 
eign tongue and they are fellowshiped as having the 
baptism of the Holy Ghost. In this country there 
are multiplied thousands of people whose parents 
were foreigners, whose native tongue they never 
learned, but are more or less familiar with, and 
when seeking the tongues it is easy to recall the 
language they heard in their childhood days. 
We remember certain phrases in the German lan- 
guage that we learned from a neighbor when we 
were a child. And this is no doubt true of many of 
the "Tongues" people. Most of them, we under- 
stand, can utter only a few sentences at best. 

We asked one of our missionaries if she could 

speak German. She said she could not, but we 

found that she could understand her parents when 

they were conversing in the German language. We 

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74 Demons and Tongues 

suppose that in a ' 'Tongues" meeting they would 
call such a person an interpreter. We have heard 
persons in the Western states mimic Chinamen per- 
fectly, so that it was impossible to tell the differ- 
ence. And when "Tongueism" is sifted down it 
will be found that the cunning craftiness of de- 
praved humanity figures in it more prominently 
than any one has any idea of. 



CHAPTER VII 

THE OLD RED DRAGON — SATAN'S AMBITION — WOMAN CLOTHED 

WITH THE SUN — WORKS OF THE FLESH — "AS IT WAS IN THE 

DAYS OF NOB"— SODOM — AN OBJECT LESSON — LOT'S PLEA 

— CUP OF INIQUITY FULL — FALLEN ANGELS — SATAN'S 

EFFORTS FOILED— NATURE OF DEMONS. 

When Satan lost his first estate as an archangel 
and fell from heaven, his tail drew the third part of 
the stars with him. These stars, or angels, were cast 
to the earth, where they have ever since been en- 
gaged in the service of the king of darkness. What 
an innumerable host there must be ! Isaiah 14 : 12- 
14 says, "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Luc- 
ifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down 
to the ground, which didst weaken the nations. 
For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into 
heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of 
God : I will sit also upon the mount of the congre- 
tion in the sides of the north : I will ascend above 
the heights of the clouds ; I will be like the most 
High." A further account of Lucifer says that he 
made the world as a wilderness and destroyed the 
cities thereof, and opened not the house of his pris- 
oners; but notwithstanding all this, God said, 
1 'Thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides 
of the pit." It was Satan's ambition to become 



76 Demons and Tongues 

mightier than God, and while he knows now that this 
he can never accomplish, he is still trying to hold 
the world and its inhabitants, and with the hosts 
that co-operate with him he is waging vigorous war- 
fare against the Son of God. This earth is the pur- 
chased possession of Jesus Christ, who, Revelation 
says, was the Lamb slain from the foundation of 
the world. The devil knows this, but will not re- 
linquish his claims until he is forced to do so. But 
thank God, the time is short. A mighty angel will 
descend from heaven with a chain and cast him into 
the pit and lock him up, but until this has been 
accomplished his work of devastation and ruin will 
continue. 

In the 12th chapter of Revelation we have an 
account of the war in heaven, and how Michael and 
his angels fought against Satan and prevailed over 
him. Here he is called a Great Red Dragon. 
4 'There appeared a great wonder in heaven ; a woman 
clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, 
and upon her head a crown of twelve stars : and she 
being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained 
to be delivered. And there appeared another won- 
der in heaven ; behold a great red dragon, having 
seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon 
his head. And his tail drew the third part of the 
stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : 
and the dragon stood before the woman which was 
ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as 
soon as it was born." This woman represents the 



Works of the Flesh 77 

Church at the beginning of the Gospel age, who 
brought forth a man child who was to rule the 
nations with a rod of iron. "And her child was 
caught up unto God, and to his throne." This child 
was none other than God's immaculate Son who 
was crucified on Calvary and caught up to heaven. 
The Dragon succeeded in having Him put to death, 
but before He was caught up to heaven His Church 
was established on the earth, against which He said 
the gates of hell should not prevail. 

The woman (Church) had to flee to the wilder- 
ness where God had a place prepared for her. The 
Old Red Dragon, that symbolizes the flesh, has al- 
ways pursued the Church, and stood ready to de- 
vour her offspring. Through the centuries past her 
place has been one of obscurity, she has had to hide 
away from the Dragon and those who are in league 
with Him. 

Paul gives, in the fifth chapter of Galatians, a 
graphic account of the works of the flesh. "This I 
say then, walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill 
the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against 
the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh : and 
these are contrary the one to the other : so that ye 
cannot do the things that ye would. * * Now the 
works of the flesh are manifest, which are these ; 
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, 
wrath, strife, seditions, HERESIES, Envyings, 
murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of 



78 Demons and Tongues 

the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in 
times past, that they who do such things shall not 
inherit the kingdom of God." It was the Old Red 
Dragon working through fleshly lusts that caused 
the antediluvians to be destroyed by the flood. 

Luke 17: 27 corroborates this, "They did eat, 
they drank, they married wives, they were given in 
marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the 
ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all." 
It is plain to be seen that these antediluvians were 
making provisions for the flesh until God in judg- 
ment sent the flood to sweep them away. The sins 
of the flesh have destroyed nations and drowned the 
multitudes of all ages in perdition. God rained fire 
and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah because 
of their abominable fleshly lusts and practices. 
When Lot separated from Abraham he pitched his 
tent toward Sodom, symbolizing the life of the 
flesh which some people cleave to even after they 
have been born of the Spirit. The Red Dragon 
stands ever ready to devour the spiritual child, and 
without the strictest discipline no one who has been 
given up to the fleshly lusts and indulgences will be 
able to stand, even after he has been born of the 
Spirit. The tendency of people is to relapse into 
the old habits and to cling to the environments that 
will eventually result in their complete overthrow 
and destruction. 

It is this old red flesh dragon back of the 
"Tongues" movement that has caused it to spread 



"In the Days of Noe" 79 

with such rapidity around the globe. The soil of 
fleshly lusts has been so well prepared among back- 
sliders that there has been no difficulty for heresy 
and witchcraft, the works of the flesh, to become 
strongly rooted. 

The colored race are the descendants of Ham, 
and all, perhaps, are familar with the conditions 
which caused God to send a curse upon Ham, one 
of the sons of Noah. "Cursed be Canaan (Ham); 
a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 
* * Blessed be the Lord God of Shem ; and Canaan 
shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, 
and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; and Ca- 
naan shall be his servant" (Gen. 9:25-27). The 
reason that blessings were pronounced upon Shem 
and Japheth was because they took a garment and 
walked backwards and covered their father's naked- 
ness. Ham, who had the first opportunity, failed 
to do so. There was no blush on his cheek when 
he saw the sorrowful plight that his father was in. 
He was a man who, no doubt, was given to fleshly 
lusts, and as the curse fell upon Adam and Eve in 
the Garden for disobedience, so God in like manner, 
sent a curse upon Ham for his lack of modesty and 
respect for his father. 

With due consideration for the colored people, 
and with a heart interest in thair spiritual uplifting, 
we must say it was very fitting that the devil should 
choose a colored man to launch out the "Tongues" 
movement in which the works of the flesh are so 



80 Demons and Tongues 

plainly manifest in these last days when the Old 
Red Dragon has well-nigh swallowed up every re- 
ligious movement on the globe. There is no other 
race through which the Dragon could work more 
effectually than through the colored race. 

The colored people to-day are not responsible 
for the sin of Ham, and can receive salvation 
through the atonement like all other nationalities 
that have come under the curse of the sin of our 
first parents. But that does not alter the fact that 
the curse of fleshly lusts did especially fall upon 
Ham and his descendants, and every colored person 
should be enlightened on this subject so that he may 
make vigorous warfare on this the besetting sin of 
his race. It is our duty to deal with every indi- 
vidual in such a manner as to be helpful to him in 
making the fight against the world, the flesh and 
the devil, and when we discover the weak places in 
people's characters we should deal with them 
honestly and with a spirit of divine love, warning 
them against the traps the enemy has set for them, 
and help to build them up rather than let them go 
on in ignorance and lose their souls. 

The conditions were so dreadful in Sodom, 
where the people were cursed with the sins of the 
flesh that the men would have done violence to the 
angels who came to warn Lot if they had not been 
restrained. No wonder the wrath of God burned 
against them and rained fire down upon them. The 
contaminating influence of Sodom was so great 



Sodom 81 

that Lot, with the assistance of the angels, could 
not deliver all the members of his family. While 
his wife was being hastened from the city she 
looked back with longing eyes upon Sodom and the 
lightning of God struck her and turned her to a pil- 
lar of salt. 

What an awful lesson for those who are fondly 
twining their affections around things that pertain 
to the flesh ! Men and women pamper the flesh and 
indulge the appetites until they become so weak in 
mind, body and soul that they are almost beyond 
recovery. The Red Dragon, through the flesh, has 
cut human life down until people are old and feeble 
when they ought to be in their prime God had to 
smite the men in Sodom with blindness to keep 
them from seeking to carry out their evil designs 
with the angels. Think of these depraved human 
beings, the last night in Sodom, with the persistency 
of demons trying to force open the door of Lot's 
house bent on accomplishing their nefarious pur- 
poses. The Almighty let these things go down on 
record for an object lesson to the world. He raised 
the curtain for a short time and exposed their shame 
and debauchery before he let it fall, never to rise 
again. The Old Red Dragon had swallowed the 
whole city and with wide open mouth was ready to 
devour the angels from heaven. 

Lot's plea to stop at Zoar was a plea for the 
indulgence of the flesh. He was not ready, like 
Elijah, to gird up his loins and run for his life. His 



82 Demons and Tongues 

muscles had become soft and his will power so 
weakened by the life in Sodom that it seemed a great 
undertaking to him to go any great distance from 
the city. The angel, seeing his weakness, granted 
his request to stop at Zoar until, perhaps, he could 
recuperate and make another effort, but before he 
was in a place of safety he had to reach the moun- 
tains. There are some persons who are unused to 
the rugged way of the Cross whom the Lord will 
bear with for a time, but sooner or later they must 
reach the mountain top, where the flesh, with the 
affections and lusts, must be crucified. 

When Joshua entered Canaan God commanded 
him to utterly exterminate the Canaanites. He was 
to make no covenants with them nor show any mercy. 
The Canaanites, descendants of Ham, like the in- 
habitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, had become so 
corrupt they were unfit to encumber the ground and 
God determined to destroy them. Their cup of iniq- 
uity was full, and while they were giants, Joshua was 
told to fear not their faces. At one time God sent hail- 
stones upon thearmies that fought against Joshua and 
killed more of them than were killed by the sword. 
He caused the sun and the moon to stand still for 
a whole day when he was being avenged upon these 
workers of iniquity. God will fight for any one 
who will make war on the flesh. The unseen 
armies of heaven are at the command of those who 
wage vigorous warfare against all the sins of the 
flesh. He says of his spiritual priesthood, "But 



Fallen angels 83 

ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, 
an holy nation, a peculiar people ; that ye should 
show forth the praises of him who hath called 
you out of darkness into his marvelous light" (1 
Peter 1:6). 

When the Syrians warred against Israel the 
Lord opened the eyes of Elijah's servant that he 
might see the innumerable host of heaven that was 
ready to take part in the battle. The mountains 
were full of chariots and horses. Elisha said, "Fear 
not, for they that be with us are more than they 
that be with them." This shows how the angels 
of God are engaged with us in battle against the 
Red Dragon and his legions. Ephesians 6:12 says, 
' 'For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but 
against principalities, against powers, against the 
rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual 
wickedness in high places." 

Great ignorance is shown by the professed fol- 
lowers of Christ on the subject of fallen angels. 
Some even doubt that there is a personal devil. 
The Scriptures plainly show that there are myriads 
of these fallen spirits that throng the atmosphere 
surrounding the globe seeking a place of habitation. 
There are all kinds of demons making up the 
organized forces of darkness. There are some with 
greater strength than others, and of superior intelli- 
gence, and of course capable of occupying more 
responsible places in their Majesty's service. De- 
mons are trained and fitted for the special work 



84 Demons and Tongues 

they have to do. Some of them are princes, and 
for this reason Paul says, "For we wrestle against 
principalities and powers." No doubt there are 
myriads of demons who are not allowed to leave 
the confines of perdition because of their incapa- 
bilities. They would do great damage to the king- 
dom of darkness if they were let have their course. 

We have often heard it said, "The devil over- 
shot his mark." We believe in a case of this kind 
that an inexperienced demon who was not equal to 
the occasion, brought defeat to his master's cause. 
Many of them are ambitious to become great leaders, 
as is clearly manifested by the way they work 
through human beings who try to obtain honors 
and distinction in this world. If Satan's ambition 
was to excel the Almighty God, of course many of 
those who co-operate with him are of a similar char- 
acter. There are other demons, however, who are 
not aspiring to become great, they are satisfied to 
enter human beings, through the lust of the flesh, 
and drag them down to the lowest depths where 
they live lives lower than the animals. 

When Satan tempted Christ in the wilderness 
he approad(hed Him through the flesh. Knowing 
that He had been many days without food he 
tried to induce Him to turn stones into bread. But 
Jesus said, "It is written, Man shall not live by 
bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out 
of the mouth of God." Then he tried to get him 
to commit the sin of presumption, which so many 



Demons and Tongues 85 

who are giving way to the flesh are doing. The 
sin of presumption is much more prevalent in 
this age than it has ever been in the history of the 
world, from the fact that the old red flesh dragon 
is filling the whole earth. Peter says, "But chiefly 
them that walk after the flesh in the lust of unclean- 
ness, and despise government. Presumptuous are 
they, self-willed." He further states that such 
persons "have eyes full of adultery and cannot cease 
from sin." We see here that God's curse is pro- 
nounced upon those who are guilty of presumptuous 
sins. Presumption is the counterfeit of faith and 
is strongly rooted in the soil of fleshly lusts. 

When Satan failed in the first and second at- 
tempts to overthrow the Son of God he took Him 
into a high mountain and showed Him all the 
kingdoms of the world, and said, "All these things 
will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship 
me." He did not send one of h& arch-demons out to 
meet Jesus : the emergency was great and he went 
himself, but he lost all his ammunition and saw the 
utter futility of his efforts. The written Word was 
used in defense against him and furnished an 
armour that he could not pierce. 

With an open Bible before us it is not difficult 
to understand the nature of demons. We can know 
their occupations and thoughts. They live in an 
unrestful state running to and fro seeking an en- 
trance into the hearts of those they can bring under 
their control. There are proud demons, stingy 



86 Demons and Tongues 

demons, lying and thieving demons. In the pano- 
plied armies of hell there are great demons of lust 
that are greater in strength and power than all 
other demons combined ; they should be met with 
the sword of the Spirit and driven from their strong 
holds. Then will the kingdom of righteousness 
flourish in the earth and the witchcraft in which the 
"Tongues" movement is figuring so prominently 
get a blow that will bring the hidden things of 
darkness to light. 



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friends and acquaintances. 



PILLAE OF FIEE ? BOUND BBOOK, N. J. 



PILLAR OF FIRE PRAISES 

It is a great favorite, and is a blessing wherever it goes. 
The songs are new and full of Gospel truth. The music 
is inspiring, Not a poor number in the book. Order a 
sufficient quantity for your services; they will put new life 
into them. Bristol card covers 20c; cloth 30c, postpaid; 
per hundred $15 and $25, not prepaid. 

Pillar of Fire, Bound Brook, N. J. 



PILLAR OF FIRE 

A practical holiness journal. It is opening blinded eyes, feed- 
ing hungry souls, comforting the hearts of those in dis- 
tress and showing the way of salvation to those who are 
seeking. No worldly advertisements. Illustrated. 16 
pages, weekly. $1.00 a year. Sample free. 

Pillar of Fire, Bound Brook, N. J. 



PILLAR OF FIRE JUNIOR. 

A paper for children and young people. The future of your 
boys and girls depends in a great measure on what they 
read. Do not feed their young minds on fiction and sen- 
sational stories. Give them something that will build up 
Christian character. Illustrated. 8 pages, weekly. 50c 
a year. Sample free. 

Pillar of Fire, Bound Brook, N. J. 



JUN IS 1910 



One copy del. to Cat. Div. 
&N 13 Ii9t 



